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Adding pigment to an oil finish is kinda like making an oil stain. Oil stains are sometimes nice for certain kinds of furniture, but almost never preferred for guitars. You can stain the wood and follow with an oil finish. Different woods yield better or worse results when the raw wood is stained, often irreversibly. Test on scrap! Check out the RED Tele with a Floyd Rose on the USA Custom Guitars forum: http://guitarsbyfender.yuku.com/topic/2624...bum.html?page=8 Stained the wood, followed by Tru-oil. And look here for a Gibson style red dyed mahogany followed by tru-oil. http://www.tdpri.com/forum/finely-finished...h-red-blue.html Ristguitars answers a number of questions in the thread on his technique. Next, pickling stain followed by Tru-oil for a Fender blond translucent finish here: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-disc...nally-done.html Lastly, a pigment will produce a more opaque color than a dye. I've bought some Mixol pigment to experiment with, but I haven't tried it as yet.